Baidu Research today unveiled the next generation of DeepBench, the open source deep learning benchmark that now includes measurement for inference. The announcement was made at the O’Reilly AI Conference in New York. In September of 2016, Baidu released the initial version of DeepBench, which became the first tool to be opened up to the [...]

In early April, our team at Baidu Research successfully taught an AI agent to navigate a virtual maze using natural language command issued by a virtual teacher. Today, we are excited to announce that our AI agent successfully learned to speak by interacting with a virtual teacher. Speaking, along with other abilities of human beings, [...]

In February, Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab published Deep Voice 1, a system for generating synthetic human voices entirely with deep neural networks. Unlike alternative neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems, Deep Voice 1 runs in real-time, synthesizing audio as fast as it needs to be played – making it usable for interactive applications like media and [...]

Despite tremendous progress, artificial intelligence is still limited in many ways. For example, in computer games, if an AI agent is not pre-programmed with game rules, it must try millions of times before figuring out the right moves to win. Humans can accomplish the same feat in a much shorter time, because we are good [...]

Today we are proud to announce the beta launch of Baidu’s first AI-powered transcription software, SwiftScribe. We set out to develop SwiftScribe to fix a pain point – the time-consuming process of manually transcribing word-by-word. Now, through the integration of Baidu’s state of the art speech recognition technology and easy editing tools, SwiftScribe will allow people [...]

Baidu Research presents Deep Voice, a production-quality text-to-speech system constructed entirely from deep neural networks. The biggest obstacle to building such a system thus far has been the speed of audio synthesis – previous approaches have taken minutes or hours to generate only a few seconds of speech. We solve this challenge and show that [...]

Summary: Neural networks have grown in scale over the past several years, and training can require a massive amount of data and computational resources. To provide the required amount of compute power, we scale models to dozens of GPUs using a technique common in high-performance computing (HPC) but underused in deep learning. This technique, the [...]

Kubernetes community announced today that PaddlePaddle, the open source deep learning framework originally developed by Baidu, is now compatible with Kubernetes, the cluster management system, making PaddlePaddle the only deep learning framework that officially supports Kubernetes to date. The compatibility will allow developers to conveniently train large models on all major global cloud service providers [...]